Difference: MySqlNotes (1 vs. 12)

http://www.bluebox.net/about/blog/2009/07/mysql_encoding/

Amazon RDS uses latin1 encoding by default, you need to explicitly configure UTF-8: http://matthew.mceachen.us/blog/howto-configure-an-amazon-rds-instance-to-use-utf-8-925.html

mysql> show table status like 'tablename' \G

Note that Ruby's mysql gem doesn't respect the table's encoding, but mysql2 does.

show master status;
show slave status;

http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/replication-problems.html

An alternative distro with some useful patches applied: http://ourdelta.org/

You'll get lots of them: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/innodb-deadlocks.html

Maatkit

http://www.maatkit.org/ - need to look into these tools, they look useful.

Installs into /usr/local/mysql by default.

Small, fast database for simple tasks like providing services to web servers.

http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/index.html - manual

mysql --host=host --user=user -p database

(as root, connected to mysql database) select host, user, password from user;

show databases;
show tables;
describe table;

-- TobyCabot - 20 Mar 2004